Week 260: Caste Training->Nazi Pipeline, Slavic Cosmic Dimensions, Aesthetic
12/07/2024 - Modern Hindu Content
Welcome to Eternal Path! This week we feature: the Caste Training to Nazi pipeline, Slavic pagan dimensions of the cosmos, and an aesthetic!
Hinduphobia Highlight: Effects of “Caste Training”
In late November it was revealed that the New York Times and Bloomberg killed an article covering very interesting academic findings at the last minute. Why? One can only speculate but likely because the study shows that Diversity Trainings, which gained wide acclaim and usage in the last decade, actually have deleterious impacts, including making people more willing and likely to engage in discrimination!
The paper in question “Presented By Instructing Animosity: How DEO Pedagogy Produces The Hostile Attribution Bias" was a collaboration between the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) and the Rutgers University Social Perception Lab. Much of the study concerned the impact of broader diversity training and its impact on making respondents align more strongly with authoritarian and vengeful beliefs, or that respondents would go hunt or see bias where no bias exists.
Many of our readers will know that there is a group called Equality Labs, which engages in a considerably amount of lobbying and spreading of misinformation against the Hindu community. What readers may not know is in recent years, Equality Labs has often been utilized by corporations and agencies to provide training on caste. A reminder that the head of Equality Labs, who might be training you on caste, doesn’t even properly know how to identify people’s castes. Nevertheless, even though they are bad actors spreading fake statistics, their training can influence people and may be the only exposure others have to the topics of caste or even Hinduism!
The NCRI found that after going through Equality Labs Caste Training, the likelihood that respondents agreed with Nazi-esque anti-Brahmin statements vastly increased. These statements in Figure 7 below are indistinguishable from Nazi rhetoric used against Jews.
Figure 5 shows that after the trainings, respondents were more likely to want to punish Hindus!
So what are people to do? Don’t be a mute spectator. Raise your voice against these folks. If you see Equality Labs cited in an article, write to the editor and point out they are a bigoted group. If you see their garbage on social media write a comment refuting their misinformation. If they are training in your workplace, then refuse their training.
The full study is available at: https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/Instructing-Animosity_11.13.24.pdf
Religion Highlight: Slavic Mythology and the Concept of “Prav Yav Nav”
At Eternal Path, we like to highlight indigenous religions from other parts of the world as we think understanding their worldviews, history, and practices can provide interesting lessons to Hindus. The literal meanings of the words Prav, Yav, and Nav, are, respectively, "Right", "actuality" and "probability" and the video below, by an Indian Hindu, goes into the Slavic concept and compared it with Hindu concepts.
Aesthetic: Uttarakhand Temple
